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This is the 4th edition of Phil Eklund's signature game High Frontier. It all started with Rocket Flight. This game had the ambition to let "Each player start as a space faring company in the year 2020 trying to make a profit in trade and technology development." We are now at 2020 and High Frontier 4 All will turn High Frontier into;
*a more accessible game, using introductory games that introduce the mechanics step by step as well as tutorials and a lot of illustrated examples and strategy tips.
*a game system, open for additions and modules. This will enable the active and brilliant community around High Frontier to evolve it continuously and for us to honor them by publishing modules that Phil deem worthy.

The game comes in a Core box, which contains the previous edition's basic and advanced rules. The rules have been given a complete overhaul in order to make them watertight and accessible. The Core box also includes Module 0 -Politics.

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This terawatt module for High Frontier 4 All introduces two new patent decks: Freighters (1B) and GW Thrusters (1C). Freighters are a new type of patent card allowing the transport of valuable factory goods back to LEO. GW thrusters are more powerful and efficient versions of the MW thrusters of the core game, allowing your Spacecraft to reach the outer planets more easily. This module also optionally introduces Futures, special game goals to earn victory points.

This is an expanision require that you have the core game High Frontier 4 All.

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This colonization module introduces orbital space colonies called Bernals and space pioneers called Colonists. These two types of cards extend the core game to go beyond industrializing and exploiting the resources of the solar system to colonizing and settling the solar system. Bernals upgrade your Colonies to give you extra VP, according to the Hydration of nearby Factories. They also award Colonists, which you can take to Sites to perform extra Operations there.

This is an expansion require that you have the core game High Frontier 4 All.

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As Factions expand into the solar system and trade among themselves, they become less dependent on Earth and less tolerant of Earth-centered trade limits and regulations. Secessionists start to clamor for independence and self-governance. But if war is declared, the game state changes drastically until it is resolved, with hot fighting between the Loyalists and the Independents. At stake: will space ventures be subject to Earth regulations and governance by terrestrial superpowers and multinational organizations like the UN, or will they be a bunch of self-governing city-states?

This is an expansion require that you have the core game High Frontier 4 All.

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As Factions settle the Solar System and adopt a commodity economy based upon isotope rocket fuel, humanity itself changes and augments itself to adapt to the space environment of low gravity and high radiation. The science of cybernetics allows human-machine hybrids to flourish. Terawatt technology makes it possible to build a starship and augmented humanity makes it possible to expand to the stars. Module 4 Exodus plays with multiplayer and solitaire scenarios and only needs the Core High Frontier 4 game to play, but can be combined with any Module. It extends High Frontier in the following ways:

Contracts (Module 0). Enhance the early to mid-game, granting early Aqua and mission goals. Contracts create a radical new dynamic for all games: solo, 4-cycle, and extended. In 6- and 7-cycle games, enterprises become a path to augmentations, as humanity alters itself and its machines to better colonize the solar system and reach the stars.

New Colonist Queue & Augmentations (Modules 1 & 2) represent Humans whose bodies have atrophied to the point that they are largely mechanical. Augmentation chits are played on the Colonists to upgrade them.

An Isobank, founded by one player and holding the game’s repository of isotope fusion fuel, becomes the center of starship construction. With Module 3, the isobank can be raided and potentially robbed! If a starshot occurs, either in the spirit of expansion or to escape from bondage, a combination game into Interstellar is possible. Special Exodus contracts are also available to complete vital preparation for the interstellar journey.
New Solitaire Political Diagram (Module 0) to integrate contracts with the CEO and Altruism solitaire variants.
You will never again play without Module 4! Make this your first module purchase for game changing new "contracts," then add the full Module 4 rules with our other HF4A Modules for a truly epic adventure! High Frontier Module 4 makes the deepest game available on space travel even deeper, and sets the arena for real deep exploration, aiming for the stars!

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All the components needed to play the High Frontier 4 All core game, module 1, and module 2 as a 6-player game.

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A set of factory cubes that show the Spectral type of the Site where they were built.

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High Frontier 4 All player aid including:
72 Cards for Tracking Futures and other things (for Modules 1, 2, 3 and 4) + Jump Start Rulebook with 48 technology cards, duplicates from the core game, printed in 8 Rocket stacks that also include extensive Card and Map Quick Guides

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The High Frontier 4 All map in neoprene, size 900mm x 1350mm (double the regular size board included in the core box: 900x600mm). 1,5mm thickness with edge sewing.

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In Expedition Zetta, you start the game by recruiting 1-4 crew members, then you will:

Discover strange planetary systems, randomly generated each game based on the latest scientific data
Find exotic new substances never before seen
Develop exo-products that can advance human technology
Gain new knowledge
Encounter new forms of life or ruins and settlements of vanished, ancient alien civilizations with their promise of both danger and discovery
Perhaps encounter another star-faring civilization whose members might even become part of your crew, making it not only international but interstellar
See crew interactions that can lead to romance or intrigue, which can either help or hinder you

Every game plays differently! Each game includes four planetary systems. After warping together to a distant star, you travel with your crew individually between planets, searching for life and substances or trying to construct exo-products. If the life you find is intelligent, you may even interact with it. The discoveries are your main source of Fame.

The revolutionary Zetta Planetary System Generator, used in the advanced game, can generate as many different star systems in the game as there are in the known universe, each with its own unique characteristics and its own name. Thus, no two voyages to the stars will ever be the same! During the warp stage in the advanced game, you interact with the other players' crew members to gain advantages. Romance or intrigue may occur, with varying effects.

Apart from the gameplay experience, a journey with Expedition Zetta will give you knowledge about stars and planets, along with memories of when you for instance managed to extract gems from a gaseous giant in a triple star system, from when you found life in a lenticular galaxy or when you managed to produce time crystals near a super-hot supergiant O-star.

Expedition Zetta has a basic version that is great for the whole family.

Want a quick game? Use the Quick rules!
Want to add special adventures and encounters to your mission? Play adding one or several of the specialized rule modules!
Want to play solo? There are two different solitaire variants.
Playing for the first time? Use the play-and-learn tutorial.

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Medicine in Imperial Rome is an art of celebrated advances, an art of showmanship and bitter rivalry between practitioners all with their own entourages. There is one doctor above all others: Galenus. The writings of this second-century Greco-Roman would be the epitome of medicine for one thousand years to come.

How to play

Galenus is a worker placement game where you plan to do up to 6 actions and then decide when and how to resolve them. As such, some players can still be planning their actions while you are already resolving them. You can choose to recruit and treat patients — gaining knowledge in one of four humors — publish works based on that knowledge, acquire herbs to aid your work, rejuvenate in the baths, or adopt a new philosophy. At the end of the year, you compete in medical contests expending your focus and knowledge to gain reputation. If you publish enough notable works or otherwise make the biggest impact on Galenus, you will earn his respect and enter his inner sanctum.

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First player metal coin for the game Galenus. Diameter 50.8 mm, thickness 2mm.
NOTE: The art is not final.

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In Greenland you get to play through a momentous period of human history. You play as one of the peoples who attempted to colonize Greenland during the Middle Ages. This version of Greenland also includes the little-known Sea Sami expansion pack.

Compared with the 2nd edition, introduces a 4th player (Sea Sami), custom meeples for each tribe, new domestic animals and daughters, upgraded art, new play aids. Contains 63 cards, 4 elder boards, 72 custom meeples, 4 large meeples, 52 disks for energy, ivory, and iron, 10 dice.

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Humanity's evolution as a species has accelerated over the last 30,000-40,000 years in a manner unparalleled in the evolution of life on Earth. What triggered this change? Genetic mutation? Probably not. Our brains and anatomy have remained relatively unchanged for 4 million years. An encounter with different hominid species? Perhaps...

As a player, you will play through the critical epoch during which this change occurred. After millions of years of an uninterrupted, modest nomadic existence, we suddenly developed complex language, began forming tribes and building villages. You play as one of the human species existing at that time. The game system enables you to follow your tribe's evolution as well as that of the environment in which you live.

In Ice Age Europe, you are either the Archaic, Neanderthal, or Cro-Magnon species. Assign your males to hunt megafauna while avoiding predators. Specialize your elders for fire, inventions, war, or animal husbandry. Choose your mating strategy - promiscuous, harems, or pair bonding. Intermarriage leads to increased vocabulary and cognitive fluidity.

Compared with the 1st edition, contains custom meeples for each tribe, upgraded art, new play aids. Contains 60 cards, 3 elder boards, 54 meeples, 3 large meeples, 45 disks for social, nature, & technical vocabulary, 10 dice.

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Double-sided, one side for Neanderthal, and the other for Greenland. Contains play aids.

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We have reworked the game Origins from ground up, keeping its bottom-up take on civilization games, but with new features to integrate it with the arc from the predecessor games Bios:Genesis and Bios:Megafauna (second edition). The old Origins had dice, these are gone, but the classic map is retained.

Bios:Origins include 2 maps. One traditional Earth map and one more empty ocean map. New is a hexgrid, found on the back of the map board, for building custom maps. This can be used to to create custom maps using the punch out hexes included in Bios:Origins or recreate the cratons from an end state of Bios:Megafauna (second edition) if you are playing a trilogy campaign game.

The empty ocean map can be used in your Bios:Megafauna game too if you want, while playing that.

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Bios:Mesofauna 2nd edition starts with the invasion of the land about 450 million years ago and is an Alternate 2nd Game in the Bios Trilogy. It follows the same sort of Achterbahn environment, same climate change, same or similar creeples, same VP, same tiles, same card colors, same cratons and drift, same basic and Achterbahn games, same catastrophes, same greenhouse, cloudiness, and oxygen. Same terrestrial settings. All of these are production and development advantages. The setting is the same, only the animals are smaller.

How to play?

Start with an archetype species, and evolve into up to 6 more swimming, flying, burrowing, armored, or parasite species.
Build a portrait of each species that gives you victory points according to its pheromones and population.
Use a diceless contest mechanic to see which carnivore, herbivore, or parasite is the fittest to survive in a particular pollinator, herbivore, or carnivore niche

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A DOUBLE SIDED neoprene mat, 2 mm thick with Sewn edges and hi-res print on both sides.

Side 1: For 4 different versions; for Bios:Mesofauna, all three rulesets (Cocoon, Caterpillar and Butterfly) and for the combined game of Bios:Mesofauna+Bios:Megafauna.

Side 2: For Bios:Megafauna, both versions (Tooth&Claw and Achterbahn)
The mat also works for the solo versions of both Bios:Mesofauna and Bios:Megafauna.

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Start as a plant or animal making first landfall half a billion years ago, then evolve it on drifting continents in the face of competition and huge ecological events: Win if become the dominant herbivore or carnivore.

In the full game you can grow from 200 grams to 20 tonnes. The atmosphere is tracked for oxygen, cloud cover, and greenhouse gases, and the decisions the players make influence the climate.

Bios Megafauna comes with 8 "continents" that can drift around, 160 mutation cards, 140 wooden laser-cut creeples of flying, burrowing, swimming, and armored creatures, various tokens of fossils and monsters, 110 wooden cubes, 42 climate disks, and 20 dice (mainly to track creature size). For the full game, there are 3 latitude strips and a climate board that tracks oxygen, clouds, and greenhouse gases. The game is the second game of the "Bios" trilogy, which can be played together or separately.

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You start as an ingredient in the primordial soup, and try to create life. Solitaire, competitive, and cooperative play options. This is the first game in the Bios:Trilogy, being followed by Bios:Megafauna 2 and Bios:Origins 2. The Bios games are linked yet independent.

Compared to the 1st edition, there are components now for 4 instead of 3 organisms for each player, 100 new commissioned artworks, 68 page rules/ science background, & a folding player aid.

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In the game designer Matt Eklund's own words: Pax Transhumanityis a game about idea development in a non-dystopian near future. In traditional Pax-style, the players have access to a marketplace of ideas to compete over.

Unlike other Pax games, there are no hands or tableaux in the traditional sense. The players’ goal is to invest in viable ideas and use infrastructure to release them to the world. Once an idea is commercialized it becomes part of the human progress splay, becoming part of human history and making other ideas viable. It will also likely generate growth (new cubes), solve humanitarian problems (VP chits), or break down barriers (place company disks).

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Double-sided, one side for Pax Porfiriana, and the other for Pax Transhumanity.

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Assign warships to blockade slave ports or intercept slave ships, install missions, trading posts, and colonies in foreign lands steeped in serfdom, challenge the institution of slavery on moral and legal grounds in courts, and sanction underground railroads, slave revolts and revolutions. Play in cooperative-competitive, cooperative, or solitaire modes. If victorious, you achieve the greatest political accomplishment in history: making slavery everywhere illegal.

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As a Renaissance banker, you will finance kings or republics, sponsor voyages of discovery, join secret cabals, or unleash jihads and inquisitions. Your choices determine if Europe is elevated into the bright modern era or remains festering in dark feudalism. Four victories determine the future course of Western Society: will it be towards imperialism, trade globalization, religious totalitarianism, or enlightened art and science? Ranked in the top 100 thematic games by BoardGameGeek. Pax Renaissance 2nd edition has updated and expanded rules, components and new Renaissance inspired art. Previous expansion pack (59 Market cards) and BGG promo cards (5 cards) included in the core game.

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Includes 33 metal florin coins and 4 plastic gem tokens (for the 5-florin value).

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Pax Viking is a strategic, historical game for 1-6 players aged 12 and up about the lesser know Vikings that travelled eastwards. These adventurers and explorers primarily came from Sweden and were for most parts merchants: skillful opportunists when it came to the use of both shinning silver and sharpend steel.

Pax Viking is a card driven game where you compete over cards in a common market in combination with strategic movement of longships on the map. You can play cards you buy on map locations you control through your longships; create trading posts, claim benefits from events and more. You can also play cards on your jarlboard, adding abilities to your player through friends, allies and gods. In the east you explore and develop the regions and trade routes. In the west you can find powerful allies and gods to help you. Through your actions you collect followers to give you power and influence for your final bid: to be the first king of Sweden.

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Includes 60 metal Silfr coins and 20 metal Gull coins for Pax Viking.

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A game created with the look and feel as having been created and played in the Viking Era of a 1000 years ago. A 2-player game with years of development. 99% of playtesters said they would play again & liked the intricate combinations of tactics possible with 3 different pieces.

Contains a cloth 20x9" (50x22 cm) map, and partly hand-made components in wood & fabric true to the Viking era, with embroidered patterns and a stamped metal Viking coin replica.

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Explore the moons of Saturn. Exploit the galactic resources. Expand your influence in the far reaches of space!

In a not very distant future, corporations fight over control of space. As you wage war against your fierce competition by exploring and exploiting the moons and asteroids in the outer parts of the solar system, you will need to maneuver your fleet of spaceships through violent electrical currents to collect the resources you need to build mines and factories. Will you use the gravity of the planets to strike your enemy, or will you upgrade your spaceship's capacity and weaponry in your factories to aid you in your quest to be the master of venture in deep dark space? There are multiple paths to victory… whatever path you choose, you must carefully plan your moves to outwit your opponents!

Ion Game Design presents Dawn on Titan, a short, light wargame with asymmetrical winning conditions and a modular board that increases replayability, suitable for the whole family!

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Alien Expansion. (Note, you need the core game of Dawn on Titan to be able to make use of this expansion.)
Deep space probes have discovered strange artefacts and anomalies around Saturn. Could this be our first contact with an alien civilization? You play as a leader of one of the big corporations that rushes to Saturn to exploit these new possibilities.

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The starship Exodus departs in haste from a troubled Solar System. Players must negotiate risks and challenges together in a cooperative sense and survive the journey, but competitively, must have the most victory points to win. Because of extreme mass limits, players start with two heavily augmented teenagers plus frozen human embryos, eggs, and sperm. The ship is a generation ark on an interstellar voyage lasting over a century.

Interstellar is a stand-alone cooperative-competitive game for 1 to 6 players, also playable as a successor game to High Frontier in combination with Module 4-Exodus. It can also work as the 5th part of our game series on the evolution of life: (Bios:Genesis, Bios:Megafauna/ Bios:Mesofauna, Bios:Origins, High Frontier 4 All and Interstellar).
All players travel in the Exodus starship; a modular game component consisting of a number of blueprint placards that will erode, malfunction, and be eaten by gray-goo.
Players must negotiate risks and challenges together in a cooperative sense to survive the journey, but competitively, the one with the most victory points wins.
A large map featuring our nearest stars binds it all together; here you plan and execute your journey. As with High Frontier, everything on this map is based on real facts about outer space.
The journey lasts for generations, maybe 100 years, maybe more. You will probe potential star systems, maintain the ship and develop technology for sanity, anti-cancer, survival, terraforming, and colonization.
One player is the commander and makes the most important decisions, but this player needs to stay popular, or a new commander can be chosen among the players via mutiny.
Each turn spans 12 years. A market of developments represents what you spend your time on and discover. An ideology chart tracks how the players’ mutual loyalties evolve.

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The Interstellar map in neoprene, size 900mm x 1350mm (double the regular size board included in the core box: 900x600mm). 1,5mm thickness with edge sewing.

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Stationfall is a game of blackmail and betrayal, of murder and mayhem, and of unknown danger and desperate survival.

Stationfall takes place on a corporate space station full of illegal science whose orbit has inexplicably terminally decayed. The station’s motley assortment of humans and robots are suddenly thrust into a life and death struggle for escape and survival. Some of the characters on board are secretly players, who know of the impending disaster and are trying to accomplish their varied victory conditions before the station is incinerated.

In Stationfall, each particular character’s victory condition is publicly known, however which character a particular player is (if any) is secret. Players can suborn any character in the game, adding their skills and gear to their conspiracy. During the game, players must decide if and when to reveal their identity to gain their special ability and full control over their personal character. Until that time, a player’s identity and goals can only be deduced by the actions of their conspirators on board.

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Set of 27 3D characters for Stationfall. 40 mm.

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Stationfall neoprene mat 840x840 mm, 33x33 in.

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Vendel to Viking is the first board game being launched in the partnership between World Book and Ion Game Design. For more than 100 years, World Book has been the world’s premier reference source, and stands for trust and expansive knowledge covering almost every subject imaginable.

Designed by ION's lead game designer Jon Manker, Vendel to Viking is the stand alone prequel to Pax Viking that endeavors to immerse players in the 250 year Vendel period of Nordic culture prior to the Viking era (550 to 800 CE). Each turn represents an entire generation as your family competes against others to collect the strength you need to emerge as one of the leading families during the Viking era.

Vendel to Viking and Pax Viking can be played as a campaign. The end state of Vendel to Viking will interface with the starting state of a game of Pax Viking. Because of this, Vendel to Viking contains a few new Pax Viking components. These can also be used in Pax Viking regardless of if it is played as a part of a campaign.

HOW TO PLAY

You represent a family. Each turn is one generation long and you seek to include the best formidable persons in your family as you evolve from generation to generation. You place family members on the map and use them for accessing effects in various locations, for worker actions or for elevating them into a formidable person. When elevated the family member is linked to a character card taken from a market and moved to an achievement tree. The Character goes to your family board and both the presence in the achievement tree and on the family board affects your family’s opportunities onwards.

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Includs 60 metal Silfr coins and 20 metal Gull coins for Vendel to Viking

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Sammu-ramat is a cooperative game set in the Near East 800 BC. She was a wonder of a woman, ruling a large empire in turmoil, navigating it into a period of prosperity. But a great leader needs great Advisors. As Sammu-ramats Advisors, your mission in each game you play is to assist her through one of the many challenges that she encountered during her reign. This challenge is presented to you as a scenario, found on a Challenge card that you draw during setup. Apart from completing the scenario, players need to make sure that the Empire is stable and that Queen Sammu-ramat is safe.

Vision: The designer Besime Uyanik's vision is to spread the knowledge of Sammu-ramat, nuance the image of the Assyrian Empire and highlight a strong female leader. Sammu-ramat continues Ion Game Design’s strong line of history-focused thematic games, giving life to the story with game mechanics and illustrations

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Derrocar is a card game about the week of five presidents in Argentina.

In this 1-5 player board game you play as the Senators and Governors of the provinces, all seeking to outmaneuver the others and become the next President of the República Argentina. In a country tired of politicians, you need to prove that you are the least bad option, by making sure that the provinces of the other governors are full of conflicts. By making it look like your opponents cannot even manage their own provinces, they will be even less able to manage the country. The game ends when a player is declared President.

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StegegetS is a beautiful roll and write game set in space, for 2-6 players. Easy enough for the whole family to enjoy. All players use the same common, beautiful map-sheet for writing and create a memorable score image.

As with all Ion’s games, StegegetS is based on real facts of the solar system, which are printed on the back of the sheets. 99% or more of the world population will know more about the solar system after playing StegegetS !
So, how do you play? In short: Roll the 7 dice to get combinations that lets you land on the available planets, moons and other objects in our solar system. Draw directly on the sheet to show where you go and what you score. When you landed somewhere it becomes your spot, no one else can score for that combination.
When you land you also collect water resources to be able roll more time, and collect points to be able to win. If you want you can use your roll to instead invest in technology, to get various bonuses for the remainder of the game. This makes you more likely reach the most difficult places to land on in our solar system, and find the really high points.

A game that combines simplicity, intricacy and beauty with science for all to enjoy, grandmother, granddaughter and otherwise!

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A quiz game for the whole family where the question goes to the one who bets the highest!

There are 8 categories of questions, in the game represented by fruits. The answers are revealed first, and you bet nuts on your chance to answer, then you get to hear the question. All questions are written in a manner where you have 4 alternatives that are true or false. A Monkey would on average get 2 right. So you need to have 3 or 4 out of 4 to be Smarter than a Monkey. All players who stayed in the bet and who prove themselves smarter than a monkey this way share pot of nuts that were be. They also get a fruit of the question's category. The first to 8 different fruits wins. The base game can be expanded with question expansions that each can replace any of the 8 categories you want.
Along with this first version, one expansion will be made available: Smarter than a Monkey - The Solar System.

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Space. It's much cuter than we thought. A family game exploring space with cute, fluffy animals.
In true ION spirit, the game mechanics are inspired by the scientific world and contain data from real experiments conducted in space. In addition, the furry characters embody actual animals that have journeyed into space. On the cover of the box, you can see Félicette, who was launched on October 18, 1963 as part of the French space program!

How to play

Your challenge: keep the great secret secret, which is to not let the humans realize that the Petsonauts are actually in charge of it all. While this charade is going on you’re trying to reach your own secret mission of finding alien supplies to smuggle back to the ship, trading your finds with fellow animals, competing to reach your goals before anyone else in the fluffy crew, and not getting caught by those pesky hoomans, of course.

In Fluffy Frontier you play as one of the space agencies, namely those that land on Halley's Comet during its next close encounter with Earth, in 2061. You have collaboratively travelled to the comet in a spaceship that is now parked in close orbit above it. You carefully plan your turns and perform certain experiments from this station, somewhat in advance so the humans don’t understand that you are doing it.
Each player’s space agency competes with the other space agencies over the discoveries found on the comet in a race to complete the most experiments. You need to fly down to the surface, collect samples, bring them back up and make experiments. And you need to act fast! The comet heats up as it comes closer to the sun and increasingly releases gas into space until it gets impossible to operate on the surface. You have 5 weeks, make the best of it.